María Ysadora López

María married Yganacio Caetano Ruiz on 9 Sep 1825 in San Felipe de Neri, Alburquerque, New México Territory.⁴¹² (Yganacio Caetano Ruiz was born in Jul 1804 in Alburquerque, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³⁸ and was christened on 18 Jul 1804 in San Felipe, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ⁴³⁸ .)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Record. ⁴¹²
9 Sep 1825 casé y belé -Ygnacio Ruis de esta juridicion, hijo de Antonio Ruis and María Ysabel Armijo, both deceased, m. María Ysidora Lopes desta misma jurisdicion, hija de Diego Lopes y María Juliana Chaves. Witnesses: Tomás Beserra, José Anastacio Hernandes, Victoriano Marques y otros.
~San Felipe de Neri Marriages, p. 96

• Diligencia Matrimonial, 18 May-16 Jun 1825. ⁴³⁸
Ygnacio Caetano Ruiz, about 20, single, a native of the Alburquerque area, the legitimate son of Antonio Estanislao Ruiz and Ysabel Armijo, both deceased. Mará YYsidora López, about 18, single, native of the Alburquerque area, the legitimate daughter of Diego Mariano López and María Juliana Chaves. The couple was related in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity.

Diego Antonio Chávez and Juan Silva
José María Chávez	1st degree	María Bárbara Chávez
Juliana Chávez	2nd degree	María Ysabel Armijo
María Isidora López	3rd degree	Ygnacio Caetano Ruiz

Manuel Armijo II
Vicente Armijo	1st degree	Manuela Armijo
María Isabel	2nd degree	María Ygnacia Jaramillo
Ignacio Caetano Ruiz	3rd degree	Juliana Chávez
Ignacio Casetano Ruiz	4th degree	María Ysidora López

Ygnacio Caetano Ruiz stated that he did not know he was related to María Ysidora until his relatives told him a few days earlier. For about two years he had engaged in improper relations whith her, and she was pregnant.

Witnesses:
Juan Antonio Crespín, 68, married, citizen of Alburquerque for forty-eight years.
Tomás Sedillo, 70, married native of Alburquerque
Joaquín López, about 70. widower, native of Alburquerque

Governor of the Sacred Ministry, Alvares Tostado granted dispensation, imposing penance that the couple would take communion once more than required annually by Church precepts and recite one decade of the rosary every day for thirty days. He ordered that the parish priest to publish the banns three times. Assuming no new impediment arose, he was to marry the couple and give them the nuptial blessing.

Certificates

On 18 Jul 1804, Vicar Ortega baptized Ygnacio Caetano Nepomuceno de la Cruz, born on 16 Jul 1804, the legitimate son of Antonio Estanislao Ruiz and María Ysbel Armijo. His padrinos were José Julián Armijo and his sister María Isadora Armijo.

Unable to locate the baptismal record for María Ysadora López, Father Leyba took testimony on 19 May 1825 from Joaquín López, a citizen of Alburquerque, sho said that María Ysidora López was baptized in the parish church. Although he had not seen the act, the late Vicente López had told him about it. Father Guerra performed the baptism.

On 19 Jul 1825, Diego Antonio López gave his permission for his daughter, María Ysidora López, to marry Ygnacio Caetano Ruiz.

In Alburquerque, on 19 May 1825, Manuel Armijo stated that Ignacio Caetano Ruiz had no parents or grandparents who could testify to his age as required by the royal degree of 23 Mar 1773 and the royal decree 1803. As Alcalde, Armijo stated that Ygnacio Caetano was free to wed.

Durango Prenuptial Investigations, Vol. II, pp. 173-175